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Europe opened new fronts in its regulatory crackdown on Big Tech. Brussels ordered Meta to reverse a block on third-party AI assistants on WhatsApp, arguing that the tech giant was using its dominance to favor its own AI services; it follows antitrust cases against Google and Apple, and an extant ...

Building data centers in space could be cost-effective by around 2040, analysis suggested. Launch costs mean orbital compute is roughly four times the price of terrestrial, SemiAnalysis wrote, and its purported advantages such as easy cooling and constant solar power are overstated. But by the early 2030s, space data centers ...

China’s soccer team didn’t qualify for the FIFA men’s World Cup, which kicks off this week, but its tech is front and center at the tournament. Qingdao-based Hisense is the official display partner for the video assistant referee systems, while Lenovo, as FIFA’s “Official Technology Partner,” is deploying servers in ...

China is looking to spend nearly $300 billion over the next five years to build more data centers across the country, as Beijing strives to gain ground on the US in the AI race. The government wants to construct a network of “computing hubs,” Bloomberg reported. “The primary beneficiary of ...

The News President Donald Trump hasn’t committed to naming a permanent director of national intelligence to quell bipartisan outrage over his interim choice, but there’s already a quiet competition among more conventional hopefuls in case he wants to fill the job. Trump shocked Washington when he announced last week that ...

A US probe into India’s trade practices is holding up the countries’ long-awaited trade deal as New Delhi’s economic woes pile up. India is pushing the US for preferential tariffs, but the countries’ relationship has worsened during Donald Trump’s second term, compounding New Delhi’s challenges: The Iran war has driven ...

The News Anthropic on Tuesday launched a version of its powerful unreleased Mythos model that the company said was safe for general use. Fable 5 has guardrails in place that Anthropic said prevent it from answering questions about cybersecurity and biology — capabilities that the company said made Mythos too ...

Liz’s view When does a hedge become a bet? Our story last week about a Spanish soccer team’s hedge against its own relegation to a lower league ending up on Kalshi touched a nerve. The idea of a team betting against itself sits uneasily with fans, and I know because ...

As OpenAI joins Anthropic and SpaceX in the IPO queue, the question for Wall Street: Is there enough money for all of them? IPOs are famously momentum-driven; companies go public when other companies go public. But the sheer amount of money these AI giants will need — SpaceX is expected ...

Sam Bankman-Fried has been auditioning for a presidential pardon for months, complimenting President Donald Trump on X and granting a jailhouse interview to Tucker Carlson, then a Trump ally. Now he has formally applied for a pardon, according to a Justice Department database. The effort is seen as a long ...